On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:41 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
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Geez Louise!
Went back to the original problem desktop. Did a find plug* -ls in the .mozilla directory. The current pluginreg.dat was 65 bytes. Fired up FF from the desktop, went to T'bird, clicked the link. Went to tools->add-ons and looked at the plugins tab. EVERYTHING IS THERE NOW!
Another find shows pluginreg.dat is now 5267 bytes, the same as my saved pluginreg.dat-.
It's beyond me unless there's the old uninitialized pointer problem, or memory leakage or some-such.
Those files are still available now.